Aaron Rodgers on IR - Teams complain

[Gwedd]

And from the major sports media....... crickets.

Integrity*

 

[RobertWeathers]

You're right, it is roster manipulation. In my opinion, though, it should be within the rules to do whatever you want with the IR (including take players off with no limits) as long as the player is on board. I assume that last caveat about the player is why the rules exist, though.

But in general, why ban strategy?

I don't disagree. I'm just advocating if a rule is a rule it needs to be enforced. Clearly something we don't see often enough in the NFL.

 

[slam]

In this hypothetical situation, I don't think he'd stay in GB. His frustration about the team's avoidance of free agents is pretty clear. Also being stuck in GB all those years has to be grating on him. It really is in the middle of nowhere, and he's a Cali boy. There would be a god-awful bidding war and he'd have his pick of a number of different teams to land on. Presumably that's why the NFL is looking the other way on this abuse of IR rules. Without star power, GB becomes just another small market NFL, in essence the Buffalo of the Midwest. I started watching NFL in the mid 70s and till Favre came around in the 90s that is in essence what GB was.

Maybe he'd sign with San Francisco to back up Jimmy.

 

[everlong]

I'm with the Packers on this one. What team wouldn't shut down their star QB, or other position, in this situation? If the league really cares about player safety, they don't they care about plausible deniability, they would tell the cry babies to STFU.

 

[dannydyn]

#IR-GATE

bring on the $1M fine and 1st round forfeit...

Oh wait, it's not the Pats. Never mind... Carry on...

 

[GoBlue]

I'm a Packer hater because my other team is the Lions but i don't have an issue of putting a guy like Rodgers on IR again. They played him to try to gain a playoff pos and that didnt' work out. He's probably not 100% and now there is no reason to play him.

 

[varjao]

I dont see the problem, the guy had surgery, there is proof of it, there is xrays showing his collarbone full of screws , he was cleared to play and had a setback or a discomfort, IR again, whats the big deal?

 

[Froob]

Waiting for Chiefs players to come outta the woodwork and say Green Bay definitely manipulated the cap during Super Bowl I.

 

[XLIX]

I dont see the problem, the guy had surgery, there is proof of it, there is xrays showing his collarbone full of screws , he was cleared to play and had a setback or a discomfort, IR again, whats the big deal?

The big deal is you can’t use the IR to stash healthy players. If Rodgers is healthy enough to play (which he was last week and would be playing this week if they were still alive) then he’s healthy enough to not be on IR.

It’s one of those things which, as others have mentioned, would be a huge deal if it was NE but no one will care here.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I dont see the problem, the guy had surgery, there is proof of it, there is xrays showing his collarbone full of screws , he was cleared to play and had a setback or a discomfort, IR again, whats the big deal?

So does this mean Marty Bennett is vindicated?

That GB medical staff sure are a bunch of strong-armers making AR play when he wasn't healthy...

 

[BTTA]

I'm with the Packers on this one. What team wouldn't shut down their star QB, or other position, in this situation? If the league really cares about player safety, they don't they care about plausible deniability, they would tell the cry babies to STFU.

That's fine to shut him down, and they should. But you don't get to use IR in this way to clear a roster spot. They took a gamble, it didn't pay off, now pay the price that the rules dictate, which in this case is a roster spot (or waive him). The team they play this week and next are at an unfair advantage because GB effectively gets an extra roster spot.

 

[BTTA]

This is what is really ruining football, crybaby ***** owners, GM’s, coaches, and especially their crybaby ***** fans.

I whine and ***** about this every chance I get.

 

[fourhour]

That's fine to shut him down, and they should. But you don't get to use IR in this way to clear a roster spot. They took a gamble, it didn't pay off, now pay the price that the rules dictate, which in this case is a roster spot (or waive him). The team they play this week and next are at an unfair advantage because GB effectively gets an extra roster spot.

They already played this week.. Shut out by the Vikings last night.

 

[Froob]

The big deal is you can’t use the IR to stash healthy players. If Rodgers is healthy enough to play (which he was last week and would be playing this week if they were still alive) then he’s healthy enough to not be on IR.

It’s one of those things which, as others have mentioned, would be a huge deal if it was NE but no one will care here.

The big deal is they violated our trust, we trusted Green Bay to act in good faith and they intentionally cheating the rules. The game will never be the same again. Anything short of the death penalty will be too light for Green Bay.

 

[Angelpats]

The problem here is iring someone that is cleared to play so they can add another player.

 

[Wheelman]

This is what is really ruining football, crybaby ***** owners, GM’s, coaches, and especially their crybaby ***** fans.

There's a rule, that says if you don't have a new injury, you have to wait 6 weeks to put him back on IR, according to Shefter.

By rule(If true) the Packers should have been denied the right to be IR'ed when paperwork was sent to the NYJFL*. Another fail for this incompetent league.

 

[RobertWeathers]

If I'm reading this correctly the Pack can cut him and there wouldn't any dead cap $ on the books.

They could free themselves of that underperforming bum.

Aaron Rodgers Contract Details, Salary Cap Charges, Bonus Money | Over The Cap

 

[pctronics0072]

Couldn't they say he suffered a paper cut or bruise or whatever and that would make him unlikely to have played against the vikes.

That gives him a new injury.

 

[Hammer of Thor]

Wouldn’t he hit waivers?

Huh, can you imagine if Aaron Rodgers wound up on the Cleveland Browns?

Who am I kidding, they'd still finish 2-14 next year anyway....

 

[luuked]

I dont see the problem, the guy had surgery, there is proof of it, there is xrays showing his collarbone full of screws , he was cleared to play and had a setback or a discomfort, IR again, whats the big deal?

That it is literally against the rules to do that.

If I read those tweets correctly apparently you cant IR someone for the same injury that landed that person on the IR originally. There has to be a new injury otherwise you have to release that player.

Argue all you want about it making sense or not but by the letter of the law it might be against the rules.